So on a platform that (supposedly) is already rife with fragmentation they are going to have completely different versions just for tablets? How does this make any sense? I understand that tablets and smartphones have different uses and thus different needs, but really a completely separate version?
As an aside... What does this mean for smartphone android version numbers? Will it never get to 3.0? Or will it have a different 3.0?
The Archos devices have several limitations that put them at a clear disadvantage compared to the iPod Touch. First of all, they do not have access to the Android Market. Sure there are other, smaller, markets and I'm sure those are great, but most people are going to want to run the same Android "Apps" on a PMP and a Phone. Much like the iOS devices. Archos also chose to go with a resistive screen instead of capacitive screen that makes a fairly big difference in usage. Go to a BestBuy and play with the an Archos, if they have one set up near you, and then an iPod Touch and you should see the difference.
So yes the moniker is warranted because there hasn't been something that can stand up to the iPod Touch and seem even somewhat impressive. Hopefully this will bring some competition to the market.
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You are an insightful and informative flamebait who skewed off of the topic!
If you're company was still in the 1990s you'd be using NT 4 or Windows 98... So They are already out of the 90s?
In all seriousness though my university is still exclusively using XP when running Windows (There are some machines with Fedora on them and a few places use iMacs). So obviously you are not alone.
The only problem with that is the AMD motherboards (especially in the price range they chose) come with USB 3 and SATA 6.0 Gb/s now. Want that on the Intel machine? Extra money... That tends to get rid of the whole Intel value thing since most of the time you're not going to be bottlenecked by the CPU and you get more for your money going with the AMD combination.
Actually... Wasn't there a deal shortly after OS X 10.6 came out that Apple had shipped an older version of Flash and that would cause security issues to come back when upgrading? And wouldn't that mean that flash is installed OOTB?
An interesting thing to note is that this was filed for all the way back in 2008. I'm not too sure of the Open Pandora's history, but if their design that would be prior art was not publicly available when the patent was filed would it still be prior art? Apple sure does some evil things, but I almost wonder if they would have even known of the Open Pandora in 2008 (not that it makes this any more right).
Also, not being an expert either maybe someone here can explain, does the product have to actually be shipping for it to be prior art? If not, then wouldn't all basic mp3 player patents be void since the idea itself has been around for decades?
Not only that, but I wonder if the SEC/FCC would start breathing down their backs if Opera got denied. Especially after that whole Google Voice thing...
<quote><p>It occurs to me that all it takes to break up a 'cartel' like this is one or two successful publishers who are not owned or controlled in any way by the existing publishers, and that such independent publishers are willing to really compete with the other labels to sign talent and publish music. The question is, are there any independent labels right now? I remember seeing a chart sometime ago which showed how a lot of 'independent labels' are really owned by the big music publishers, who just use those other labels to either serve niche markets, or create the illusion of having alternatives to dealing with them.</p><p>Anyone know of any labels which really, truly, are independent, with which bands and music lovers might do business?</p></quote>
riaaradar.com might be of some use to you. It will give you if a particular album was released by a label associated with the RIAA. They have a disputes page too which will help for questionable labels.
Other than that, Dischord (started by Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and Fugazi fame) and Ipecac (started by Mike Patton of Faith No More and Tomahawk fame) both come to mind as "independent". They might have some distribution deal, but other than that I don't know of either having any ownership ties to the "major" labels
While Microsoft may not be developing at a very fast pace or even keeping up with standards, they are still the de facto choice for a vast majority of people. Especially those who are still tied to IE6 for certain things. I hate to think of that, but the quicker IE6 can die the better off the rest of us are. I'm also glad we have some healthy competition based on features and speed with Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera all being reasonably good choices.
I have been running one of the Chrome nightly builds on Leopard for several weeks and I am extremely impressed with its speed and stability. I have never had a single tab crash on me. I'm sure that people will complain about the lack of support for extensions compared to Firefox, and rightly so. But if you don't need many extensions, I highly recommend trying out Chrome.
Or if you want to not give google more information you can wait until SRWare* or someone else releases it without all the tracking (and google updater) crap in it for Liunx/OSX.
SRWare releases Chrome without the google-bits in it as Iron
And the allegations of rape and murder seem to be the internet equivalent of small-town gossip, which might have a seed of truth or might be an elaborate attempt by his political opponents to a smear campaign.
Any Americans care to extend the info on this controversy for all us non-Americans?
Glen Beck is a radio talkshow host and a TV showhost on FOX News. He is very conservative and has been in the news for making some... missteps in his commentary that have made him come off as not extremely intelligent.
The allegations are a parody of his style of reporting, which follows a similar logic(Example: the president hasn't denied that he was born out of the us, so if it isn't true why hasn't he?).
So the point isn't to say if he actually did rape or murder anyone, but to draw attention to the flaw in his logic. Glen Beck just made it worse by drawing so much attention to the website and the entire story.
What does it matter that google is going to use their own version. All the sites that use OpenID are just providers. Nobody accepts the OpenIDs created at other sites so they might as well be completely different.
The only problem with this is, outside of a either the few mega-bands (i.e. Aerosmith) or the incredibly small independent labels, artists really are getting the shaft.
I have some music that I give away (though it isn't CC because of the other members) and some for sale. The band makes almost no money from the sales (our former label has shafted us) and we make more money from the tiny amount of hits on our google ads than content.
I'd really like to see some more of the mid-size labels treat the artists well. As far as I can tell many artists make more from T-shirt sales than they do actual content sales. This saddens me greatly because of the devaluation of the content that comes from it.
Artists should be able to sell their content rather than just use it as a vehicle for apparel sales. (Also if done correctly, a tour can be very profitable but most aren't. Look at the way Fugazi ran their tours).
Lastly do you really think that a band such as, oh say Metallica would be as popular as they are without the mixtape? Many bands/artists gain listeners(customers) from someone else giving them a copy of their music. I make it a point to purchase(if possible) all of my content, but a large number of those purchases would not have been made if it wasn't for someone sending me a song or a mixtape of a band/artist that I ended up loving.
This fork is just another proof (and WTH is with that "premier multi-protocol instant messaging client" remark? Nobody uses that on Windows and Mac OS X). Ok you bring some good points about how the OSS community is far to split apart. Now have you ever heard of Adium? It is a very popular IM client for OS X and it uses libpurple as a backend. That is the very same as Pidgin. In a community of forks Pidgin is a near standard for IM clients, that is an accomplishment in it's own right.
So we are supposed to avoid compilation albums... The only problem with that is there are so many legit comps out there. They manage to make it seem like we have to be extremely careful when we go to a big box retailer to avoid pirated music. When is the last time we heard about the RIAA suing someone like bestbuy or target because they had pirated music? They would rather go after individual people for downloading music. Pirated music costs the records labels billions, sure I'll give them that, but the consumers are hurt? The way that we(consumers) are hurt is by the awful music and collections (like mothership) that are currently put out by the record labels. The RIAA doesn't need to use this into scaring people about actually buying a cd. They should thank those people for actually still paying money for their music even if it is fake because the way the recording industry is going the only people that will be worth paying for music are independents.
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I'm waiting for iPad for Workgroups 3.11. You know the ENTERPRISE edition.
So on a platform that (supposedly) is already rife with fragmentation they are going to have completely different versions just for tablets? How does this make any sense? I understand that tablets and smartphones have different uses and thus different needs, but really a completely separate version?
As an aside... What does this mean for smartphone android version numbers? Will it never get to 3.0? Or will it have a different 3.0?
The Archos devices have several limitations that put them at a clear disadvantage compared to the iPod Touch. First of all, they do not have access to the Android Market. Sure there are other, smaller, markets and I'm sure those are great, but most people are going to want to run the same Android "Apps" on a PMP and a Phone. Much like the iOS devices. Archos also chose to go with a resistive screen instead of capacitive screen that makes a fairly big difference in usage. Go to a BestBuy and play with the an Archos, if they have one set up near you, and then an iPod Touch and you should see the difference.
So yes the moniker is warranted because there hasn't been something that can stand up to the iPod Touch and seem even somewhat impressive. Hopefully this will bring some competition to the market.
You are an insightful and informative flamebait who skewed off of the topic!
If you're company was still in the 1990s you'd be using NT 4 or Windows 98... So They are already out of the 90s?
In all seriousness though my university is still exclusively using XP when running Windows (There are some machines with Fedora on them and a few places use iMacs). So obviously you are not alone.
The only problem with that is the AMD motherboards (especially in the price range they chose) come with USB 3 and SATA 6.0 Gb/s now. Want that on the Intel machine? Extra money... That tends to get rid of the whole Intel value thing since most of the time you're not going to be bottlenecked by the CPU and you get more for your money going with the AMD combination.
Actually... Wasn't there a deal shortly after OS X 10.6 came out that Apple had shipped an older version of Flash and that would cause security issues to come back when upgrading? And wouldn't that mean that flash is installed OOTB?
An interesting thing to note is that this was filed for all the way back in 2008. I'm not too sure of the Open Pandora's history, but if their design that would be prior art was not publicly available when the patent was filed would it still be prior art? Apple sure does some evil things, but I almost wonder if they would have even known of the Open Pandora in 2008 (not that it makes this any more right).
Also, not being an expert either maybe someone here can explain, does the product have to actually be shipping for it to be prior art? If not, then wouldn't all basic mp3 player patents be void since the idea itself has been around for decades?
"sudo reboot" works too!
That's simple. Money.
Not only that, but I wonder if the SEC/FCC would start breathing down their backs if Opera got denied. Especially after that whole Google Voice thing...
<quote><p>It occurs to me that all it takes to break up a 'cartel' like this is one or two successful publishers who are not owned or controlled in any way by the existing publishers, and that such independent publishers are willing to really compete with the other labels to sign talent and publish music. The question is, are there any independent labels right now? I remember seeing a chart sometime ago which showed how a lot of 'independent labels' are really owned by the big music publishers, who just use those other labels to either serve niche markets, or create the illusion of having alternatives to dealing with them.</p><p>Anyone know of any labels which really, truly, are independent, with which bands and music lovers might do business?</p></quote>
riaaradar.com might be of some use to you. It will give you if a particular album was released by a label associated with the RIAA. They have a disputes page too which will help for questionable labels.
Other than that, Dischord (started by Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and Fugazi fame) and Ipecac (started by Mike Patton of Faith No More and Tomahawk fame) both come to mind as "independent". They might have some distribution deal, but other than that I don't know of either having any ownership ties to the "major" labels
While Microsoft may not be developing at a very fast pace or even keeping up with standards, they are still the de facto choice for a vast majority of people. Especially those who are still tied to IE6 for certain things. I hate to think of that, but the quicker IE6 can die the better off the rest of us are. I'm also glad we have some healthy competition based on features and speed with Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera all being reasonably good choices.
I have been running one of the Chrome nightly builds on Leopard for several weeks and I am extremely impressed with its speed and stability. I have never had a single tab crash on me. I'm sure that people will complain about the lack of support for extensions compared to Firefox, and rightly so. But if you don't need many extensions, I highly recommend trying out Chrome.
Or if you want to not give google more information you can wait until SRWare* or someone else releases it without all the tracking (and google updater) crap in it for Liunx/OSX. SRWare releases Chrome without the google-bits in it as Iron
I wonder who will notice that the link doesn't work at all? Oh, wait... This is slashdot. Never mind. :)
I can't read you insensitive clod!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck
And the allegations of rape and murder seem to be the internet equivalent of small-town gossip, which might have a seed of truth or might be an elaborate attempt by his political opponents to a smear campaign.
Any Americans care to extend the info on this controversy for all us non-Americans?
Glen Beck is a radio talkshow host and a TV showhost on FOX News. He is very conservative and has been in the news for making some... missteps in his commentary that have made him come off as not extremely intelligent. The allegations are a parody of his style of reporting, which follows a similar logic(Example: the president hasn't denied that he was born out of the us, so if it isn't true why hasn't he?). So the point isn't to say if he actually did rape or murder anyone, but to draw attention to the flaw in his logic. Glen Beck just made it worse by drawing so much attention to the website and the entire story.
What does it matter that google is going to use their own version. All the sites that use OpenID are just providers. Nobody accepts the OpenIDs created at other sites so they might as well be completely different.
What does yro mean? It has been driving me nuts...
if you are serious... it means your rights online
The only problem with this is, outside of a either the few mega-bands (i.e. Aerosmith) or the incredibly small independent labels, artists really are getting the shaft. I have some music that I give away (though it isn't CC because of the other members) and some for sale. The band makes almost no money from the sales (our former label has shafted us) and we make more money from the tiny amount of hits on our google ads than content. I'd really like to see some more of the mid-size labels treat the artists well. As far as I can tell many artists make more from T-shirt sales than they do actual content sales. This saddens me greatly because of the devaluation of the content that comes from it. Artists should be able to sell their content rather than just use it as a vehicle for apparel sales. (Also if done correctly, a tour can be very profitable but most aren't. Look at the way Fugazi ran their tours). Lastly do you really think that a band such as, oh say Metallica would be as popular as they are without the mixtape? Many bands/artists gain listeners(customers) from someone else giving them a copy of their music. I make it a point to purchase(if possible) all of my content, but a large number of those purchases would not have been made if it wasn't for someone sending me a song or a mixtape of a band/artist that I ended up loving.
I've been using FF3 for a while as my main browser, BUT hasn't the "awesome bar" basically been a feature of Safari since... like forever?
So we are supposed to avoid compilation albums... The only problem with that is there are so many legit comps out there. They manage to make it seem like we have to be extremely careful when we go to a big box retailer to avoid pirated music. When is the last time we heard about the RIAA suing someone like bestbuy or target because they had pirated music? They would rather go after individual people for downloading music. Pirated music costs the records labels billions, sure I'll give them that, but the consumers are hurt? The way that we(consumers) are hurt is by the awful music and collections (like mothership) that are currently put out by the record labels. The RIAA doesn't need to use this into scaring people about actually buying a cd. They should thank those people for actually still paying money for their music even if it is fake because the way the recording industry is going the only people that will be worth paying for music are independents.